A Bristol man’s daughter was left fighting for her life and permanently scarred after she got a near-fatal electric shock while playing in a hotel swimming pool while on holiday.

Little Jade Miller, the daughter of Bristol man Simon Miller, knelt on electric wiring in a water feature and was instantly knocked unconscious at the resort in Cambodia.

The nine-year-old was initially paralysed from the neck down and unable to see or speak from the electric shock, which also disrupted her heartbeat, damaged the cardiac muscle and left her with deep burns on her left leg where the electricity entered and exited her body.

Her parents Meredith, 48, who is from Chicago, and Simon, 59, from Bristol, UK, had to find around £20,000 overnight to charter a flight to airlift Jade to a better hospital in Thailand.

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The electric burn injuries on Jade Miller's leg which she suffered at the swimming pool of the Golden Temple Hotel in Cambodia (Image: SWNS)

Bristol dad Simon with his daughter Jade Miller as she is treated in hospital after suffering an electric burn at the swimming pool of the Golden Temple Hotel in Cambodia (Image: SWNS)

Staff at the Golden Temple Hotel where the family, who currently live in Thailand, was staying, claim she was merely burned by the heat of the lamp - despite hospital documents diagnosing an electric shock.

Jade, who suffers flashbacks and night terrors, has written a heartbreaking letter to the hotel's bosses begging them to be more careful.

Jade Miller at the swimming pool of the Golden Temple Hotel in Cambodia (Image: SWNS)

The water feature at the swimming pool of the Golden Temple Hotel in Cambodia where Jade Miller received an electric shock (Image: SWNS)

Her handwritten note says: "I'm sad that happened to me. I feel angry. I nearly died and you don't even say sorry or care about people. I feel deeply sorry and so should you."

American-born Jade currently lives in Thailand but dual UK/US citizenship due to her mum being from Chicago and her dad being a globe-trotting builder originally from Bristol in England.

Jade was on holiday with her mum, family friend Danielle Connolly and her daughter, Rafa, six, when the incident happened in July this year.

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Luon Thea, general manager of the Golden Temple Hotel, said Jade was playing on a "restricted area" of the pool 15 minutes after it closed, and the injury was caused by the heat from the lamps and not a shock.

He said they were not willing to pay the plane transfer fee - but did pay initial hospital costs of £1,306 and waived all accommodation costs.

Jade Miller is treated in hospital after suffering an electric burn at the swimming pool of the Golden Temple Hotel in Cambodia (Image: SWNS)

Jade Miller is treated in hospital (Image: SWNS)

He said: "The doctor said the injury of the patient was irritated by the heat of lamps, not the electric shock.

"If the electric shock had been electrocuted, the victim would not live."

The electric burn injuries on Jade Miller's leg which she suffered at the swimming pool of the Golden Temple Hotel in Cambodia (Image: SWNS)

He added: "On behalf of my whole team and owner, I'm so sorry to see the incident happening to Ms. Jade Miller while she was playing at the poolside who got electric burn on her left leg touching the lamp at the water fall where is a restricted area not allow to climb on."